Clearly I’m trolling a bit; as the trailer itself is at great pains to point out, there are two sides to everything, and dramatic hype-building trailers like this are fun, too. Warface is Crytek’s first assault on the free-to-play market, and is currently in closed beta and expected to launch later this year; sign up now, if you like.

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2013/03/28/warface-trailer-dramatically-urges-you-to-play-both-sides/feed/3Crytek expands into Istanbulhttp://www.vg247.com/2013/01/17/crytek-expands-into-istanbul/
http://www.vg247.com/2013/01/17/crytek-expands-into-istanbul/#commentsThu, 17 Jan 2013 16:31:53 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=330891Crytek has opened its eighth studio, Crytek Istanbul, which will focus on free-to-play and the firm’s Warface and Gface brands, Gamespot reports. The Istanbul arm will also oversee the CryEngine business in the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey. Other Crytek offices are located in Germany, Ukraine, Hungary, Bulgaria, South Korea, China, and the UK.
]]>http://www.vg247.com/2013/01/17/crytek-expands-into-istanbul/feed/13Warface confirmed for US and Europehttp://www.vg247.com/2012/07/26/warface-confirmed-for-us-and-europe/
http://www.vg247.com/2012/07/26/warface-confirmed-for-us-and-europe/#commentsThu, 26 Jul 2012 14:40:03 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=279945Trion Worlds and Crytek have confirmed the free-to-play online FPS Warface will be in Europe and the US.

It will also be made available in Australia, New Zealand, and Turkey on PC through Crytek’s GFACE platform and Trion’s Red Door.

“Trion is the company spearheading a revolution in gaming through delivering premium online games across big genres powered by a proven, cutting edge platform,” said Crytek’s Cevat Yerli.

“The combination of this platform, GFACE and Warface shows Crytek’s commitment to finding innovative new ways to bring superior gaming experiences and AAA titles to gamers. That’s why we are creating strong strategic alliances with the best online publishers across the world.”

The online universe, set in the near future was developed with CryEngine 3, and contains a constantly updated PVE universe complete with multiplayer and PVP.

Warface is currently available in Russia with more than 2 million registered users. .

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2012/07/26/warface-confirmed-for-us-and-europe/feed/2Yerli: “We’ll figure out” how to make free-to-play AAA workhttp://www.vg247.com/2012/07/03/yerli-well-figure-out-how-to-make-free-to-play-aaa-work/
http://www.vg247.com/2012/07/03/yerli-well-figure-out-how-to-make-free-to-play-aaa-work/#commentsTue, 03 Jul 2012 05:32:11 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=274243Cevat Yerli believes so strongly in the future of free-to-play that he’s bet his entire company on it, but that doesn’t mean we’ve seen the end of story-driven, single-player Crytek games.

The Guardian asked Yerli how a traditional single-player experience could work as a freemium offering.

“We’ll figure out how to make a game like Crysis 3 work,” he replied.

“If the proposition is, the gamer gets the games for free, well, that’s better for the gamer. And what’s best for the gamer is best for the industry.”

The executive said going free-to-play will cut out a lot of hassle on the end user’s side.

“Customers have to put up with all this crap right now, legal notices, copyright protection. The best way to get rid of all that is go free,” he said.

“The gamers get what they want – free access – and if your game is good enough you can hook them in, whether that’s a single-player game, or multiplayer, or co-op, or an RPG, an RTS, or Fifa, or whatever, it really doesn’t matter.

“For every game you can find a solution. For every single one of them. It’s a creative challenge, nothing else.”

Crytek has launched a free-to-play social platform calle GFace; Warface is the flagship title.

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2012/07/03/yerli-well-figure-out-how-to-make-free-to-play-aaa-work/feed/5Crytek’s online games platform GFACE in closed betahttp://www.vg247.com/2012/02/02/cryteks-online-games-platform-gface-in-closed-beta/
http://www.vg247.com/2012/02/02/cryteks-online-games-platform-gface-in-closed-beta/#commentsThu, 02 Feb 2012 05:55:14 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=230714Crytek’s once-mysterious GFACE has resolved into a cross-platform online games platform, with social network and streaming games service.

The new service runs in a browser like Battlelog, and is currently in closed testing with no release date set; you can apply for the beta on GFACE.com.

Although it is pitched as a “high quality social media publishing service”, GFACE will apparently also support “core 3D games”. The first of these games will apparently be Crytek’s free-to-play shooter Warface; certain mysteries of nomenclature are rapidly unraveling.

The service seems to be cross-platform, with players shown accessing it from mobiles as well as desktops, and one image even shows a game of Warface in progress on three different devices – the PC player is doing the FPS thing; an iPhone player provides air support; and the commander uses a tablet to issue orders from a top down perspective.

The social side of things includes a simple, integrated drag and drop interface supporting friends lists, invites, video chat, and entertainment media on top of the usual social network gew-gaws like status updates, activity feeds, and avatars.

The team behind GFACE seems to be part of Crytek, with inspiration for the service credited to CEO Cevat Yerli, and job openings posted in Crytek’s recruiting pages. CryEngine business developer Carl Jones teased the platform in October last year when Flash was added to the engine’s list of supported formats.

“We’re developing a unifying technology to create high quality social and gaming experiences on all platforms including browser, smartphones, tablets, etc,” he said at the time.

Crytek has had this concept in the works for quite some time, trademarking the term as far back as April 2009.